Posts tagged ‘diet’

Master of Surgery and a Registered Dietician Amy Kubal recently posted an article about killing cancer cells in the Paleo Brands blog. For all of you that cancer has touched in a way or another and especially for those who are themselves combating cancer or watching someone else do, I seriously suggest to read this article. At least you have a choice to make.

Here’s the basic rule for the diet, that literally starves cancer cells and also prevents them from growing in the first place:

restrict glucose (sugar/carbohydrate) and energy

…which translates into following a calorie-restricted, ketogenic diet

…which in fact, is the very same thing as a low-carb diet

Ketogenic diet or ketogenesis is the process in which your body uses ketone bodies (ketoonit in Finnish) as its main source of energy (ie. FAT!). This oppose to using sugar as it commonly does following a modern diet high in carbohydrate. Read more from Wikipedia: Ketogenesis.

So if you’re willing to start cancer prevention or even treatment, start following a diet (quite) rich in fat, moderate in protein and low in carbohydrate intake. Optimally the diet should also be on the low side of calories as well, but when eating a diet rich in fat and low in carbs the overall energy balance tends to stay on the moderate side.

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I gave my first nutrition lecture today, at The Beauty Salon Helmi. Went well, felt good about it, a lot of questions and enthusiasm. Thanks for everybody who participated! …and if you need some paleo recipes, check my other blog monkeyfood.net (and the recipes tagged “paleo”).

The basic structure of my lecture was:

The latest take (or new interpretations) on research regarding nutrition, health, exercise and weigh loss

If you want to contact me, please email me at mur at iki dot fi, I’m glad to help! …and if you’re interested in ordering some superfoods from the Keho.net Store, just email your orders at akonan at keho dot net and put my name for reference, you’ll get a 20% discount.

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It’s been known quite a while that (heavy doses of) omega-3 fatty acids may significantly improve the condition in people with Alzheimer’s. Among others Dr. Barry Sears has done some experimenting and written about it in his several books, such as Omega Rx Zone. Now the researchers from the School of Life and Environmental Sciences and School of Medicine at The Deakin University believe they’ve found out, why omega-3’s prevent Alzheimer’s. Apparently low omega-3 levels in brains and an actual omega-3 deficiency causes the zinc level to rise which results in cell death.

When Alzheimer’s is already the second most feared disease in the U.K. after cancer and younger and younger people tend to fell ill, there’s finally some light to this. By making sure you’re having an adequate amount of omega-3s (at least 2,5 grams per day for an healthy adult) and taking care of your diet (remove processed carbs ie. sugars, cut down vegetable oils and other products rich in omega-6, preferably also grains and possibly dairy, include: organic meats, vegetables, nuts such as macadamia and walnut, fish, eggs, berries, avocado and virgin coconut oil) you can make a difference for your own future.

NOTE: when treating Alzheimer’s and other memory illnesses as well as neurological conditions by supplementing with omega-3, the needed amount is SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER than the amount recommended for an healthy adult. For example Dr. Sears was experimenting with some 20 grams dose of fish oil per day.

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Gout, that wicked and painful lifestyle disease that I would otherwise be completely ignorant of, used to terrorize my dad ever now and then. The pains just attacked out of nowhere and lasted several days if not weeks. My dad and I had read everything about the gout diet and the purines in food which are said to cause gout. My dad obeyed most of the time: no red meat, no beans, no shrimp, no seeds…

Then, in the beginning of last fall 2009, I ran into this article: Gout: The Missing Chapter from Good Calories, Bad Calories. In the article Tim Ferris, the keeper of the Four Hour Work Week blog summarizes the mechanism behind gout and the conclusion is, the purines are pointless! In gout, as well as almost every other known lifestyle (and several other) diseases the diet DOES play a remarkably important role and a diet LOW IN CARBOHYDRATE especially. It seems, that the gout attack is caused by sugar, fructose (fruit sugar) and glucose (also glucose sirap/high fructose corn sirap present in many of the prepared foods, candy et cetera).

Having this knowledge as my guideline I designed my dad a new diet that he immediately begun to follow. Results? Six months gone and no gout pain in sight! My dad’s lost the last few pounds, looks fitter and does a good job working out at the gym and has no problems of following the diet approximately 85% of the time, which is enough to work it’s magic.

So, if you want to give it a go, base your diet on these few principles:

There it is. Quite classical low carb diet that works perfectly for gout as well. I also suggest to avoid any additives, especially E621, ready made marinades and meals. Opt for as unrefined food that you can and prepare the most of it yourself. Prefer organic whenever it’s possible, especially buying fatty meats.